• 2020-02-13 06:21:59

Medical devices to be registered in Malaysia must first undergo conformity assessment with a Conformity Assessment Body, to demonstrate its conformity to the requirements of medical device law. In regards to this, currently there are conformity assessment service with good quality and also comparable to global assessments or test carried out by local laboratories.

• 2020-02-14 04:17:02

In order to optimize the efficiency of approval process, China Drug Administration (CNDA) has proposed amendments for submission documents for the renewal and clinical trial application of medical devices. This notice was issued at the end of May.

• 2020-02-14 07:33:20

In order to support the development of medical devices urgently needed for clinical purposes (hereinafter referred to as "emergency devices"), such as “for life-threatening cases, or diseases that may endanger public health, CMDE has released a draft of the basic principles of medical devices urgently needed in clinical purposes that may be conditionally approved to accelerate medical device listing.

• 2020-02-14 07:35:54

International Medical Device Regulators Forum (IMDRF) held a meeting in China during March 20 to 22. The current chairman, China FDA, proposed two projects and get the support from all IMDRF members.

• 2020-02-14 14:46:07

The Times of India reported on 21st of January 2018 about the two-day international conference on “'Challenges, opportunities and newer directions of pharmacovigilance and clinical research in India' sponsored by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE).

• 2020-02-14 14:45:04

"The Guidelines for Accepting Overseas Clinical Data of Medical Devices" (hereinafter referred to as the "Guideline") was promulgated last January 11, 2018. CFDA has declared that they will be accepting overseas clinical trial data of devices registered in China.

• 2020-02-14 15:23:25

On November 14th 2017, Center for Medical Device Evaluation (CMDE) released "The Draft of the Guidance of Accepting the Overseas Clinical Trial Data for Medical Device", which is applicable to medical devices (including in vitro diagnostic reagents, IVDs).

• 2020-02-14 15:22:02

The Clause 29th of "The Guidance of Registration for In-vitro Diagnostic Reagent” clarifies that for in-vitro diagnostic (IVD) reagents exempt from clinical trial, the applicant is responsible for the evaluation of the clinical performance of the IVD reagents by means of evaluating the clinical samples from the intended use, interference factors, comprehensive literatures and other pre-clinical data.

• 2020-02-15 06:21:59

In order to improve the design of clinical trials of medical devices in the country, the Center for Medical Device Evaluation (CMDE) drafted the guidelines for the design of clinical trials of medical devices, and asked for the public’s opinion.       

• 2020-02-15 06:20:38

A new Circular Letter was released by Medical Device Authority (MDA) on October 2, 2017, in which MDA recognizes Institute of Medical Research (IMR) Malaysia as a credible source to provide clinical evaluation data for conformity assessment purposes conducted by a Conformity Assessment Bodies (CAB) in Malaysia. This Circular Letter comes into effect starting October 2, 2017.